Sentences with phrase «environmental class»

The Superior Court of the district of Montreal has authorized the bringing of what the plaintiff's lawyer says could be the largest environmental class action in Canadian history.

The 900 turbo was one of the fewest cars on the Swedish market to satisfy and be awarded Environmental Class 1 — the world's most stringent environmental standard.

NHK television in Japan planned and filmed a two - day environmental class taught by Lester Brown.

Lead trial counsel successfully defending one of the world's leading manufacturers of fire protection systems in some 20 claims and cross-claims resulting from a large factory fire, including a product liability / environmental class action claiming C$ 80 - million in damages

In many of my environmental classes, I start with a slide that shouts «It's not just about climate change.»

We represent a wide range of business clients — including service, financial, retail, and manufacturing — in a variety of franchising, consumer, commercial, product liability, securities, intellectual property and environmental class actions.

His practice is focused in the areas of environmental and toxic tort litigation, where he has handled cases involving complex mass torts, environmental class actions, groundwater contamination, air pollution, water pollution, asbestos exposure, silica exposure, benzene exposure, exposure to various pesticides and chemicals, and disputes over water rights.

Despite the intuition that environmental harm may strike a common class, Fairfax goes on to explain how, in practice, environmental classes can be fiendishly difficult to certify.

But the promise of the environmental class action (or threat, depending on which side you happen to be on) may never come to fruition in Canada, according to a presentation yesterday by an environmental lawyer at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.

At the Ontario Bar Association's Institute 2015 conference — now in full swing, with 1,700 participants converging in downtown Toronto — Osler's Jennifer Fairfax delivered a paper that describes a litany of failed attempts to certify an environmental class, and ultimately suggests class actions may not be the preferable mechanism for dealing with environmental claims.

«Now, nearly 15 years later, the outlook is somewhat different,» writes Fairfax, «with, so far, only one example of an environmental class action decided on its merits in the common law provinces, and no successful environmental class actions (putting aside settlements) to speak of in common law Canada.»

Represent client as lead defense counsel in an environmental class action brought by homeowners asserting nuisance and property damage claims based on allegations that a neighboring industrial site contaminated the water table.